Execution dates scheduled for 6 Oklahoma death row inmates

Glossip, whose first conviction and demise sentence was overturned, was hours from being executed in September 2015 following a second conviction and demise sentence when jail officers realized they’d obtained the incorrect deadly drug.

It was later discovered the identical incorrect drug had been used beforehand to execute an inmate, and executions within the state had been placed on maintain.

Executions in Oklahoma resumed in October with John Grant, who convulsed on the gurney and vomited earlier than being declared useless.

Glossip’s legal professional Don Knight stated he deliberate to file for a brand new listening to later Friday primarily based on an investigation by a Houston regulation agency that contends Glossip is harmless.

“We respectfully disagree with the choice of the Oklahoma Courtroom of Felony Appeals to set an execution date for Richard Glossip earlier than the findings of the (report) … and new proof of his innocence, may be heard in a courtroom of regulation,” Knight stated in an announcement.

We implore the Oklahoma Courtroom of Felony Appeals to strike Richard Glossip’s execution date till this new data may be totally thought-about,” Knight stated.

Oklahoma Legal professional Normal John O’Connor requested the state appeals courtroom in June to set execution dates for 25 demise row inmates following a federal choose’s rejection of their problem to the state’s deadly injection technique.

The dates are every about one month aside. Glossip’s scheduled execution can be adopted by these of convicted killers Benjamin Cole, Richard Fairchild, John Hanson and Scott Eizember.